#mag 10

[colin-becher-death-countdown]

Re-listening to The Magnus Archives while dyeing my hair, when I was struck with this:

Episode 10 of The Magnus Archives and who just so happened to make his first appearance in Episode 10 of The Magnus Protocol

and it just so happens that he's chilling with a creature that seems very Hunt alligned

.....

Coincidence???

#sorry if someone has already pointed this out #also yeah they have different second names but still super strange coincidence #literally had to halt my hair dyeing to make this post #the magnus protocol #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #mag 10 #tmagp 10 #not colin becher death countdown

[a-mag-meme-a-day]

meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 11

Day 10 - Vampire Killer

#a mag meme a day #the magnus archives #mag 10

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Oh my god! The vampire teeth! The teeth confiscated by the government from the Magnus Institute! The British Government has a Magnus (Institute) Protocol!

Episode 10 (thank you daily relisten):

There was, however, a small bag left on top of this statement, which appears to contain six shark teeth of varying sizes. According to correspondence with the Zoology Department at King’s College, they didn’t match any currently known species.

Personally, I don’t know what to think. I certainly don’t believe in wild tales of vampirism, but I can’t help but notice that the statement above appears to be a photocopy of a photocopy, and can’t find these supposed vampire teeth anywhere in the Archives or the Secure Containment Room. I don’t know where the originals are, but the file number is listed among multiple information requests from the Institute’s government and law enforcement contracts. It may be that they take Mr. Herbert’s statement far more seriously than I do.

Guys.

Prequel.

Government shenanigans until the Apocalypse happens??

#speculating of course but!! #pretty cool lol #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #the magnus protocol #mag 10 #trevor herbert

[theblueandwhitevase]

To me Mag 34 was kind of funny. The way they just took their hearts out and casually asked if it was normal. If you don’t listen to tma, it’s better than it sounds (it’s not). Mag 19 and 20 aren’t talked about enough. That priest got screwed over so badly by half of the entities and it was a two parter. Imo the peak of season 1. He also appeared in mag 8 burned out and in someone else’s statement. It just kind of connected all together and I loved that. Discuss your opinions in the comments 👍

#Mag 19 #mag 20 #mag 34 #mag 9 #mag 10 #mag 65 #the magnus archives #tma #tma polls #the magnus archives polls #tma podcast #tma posting #julia montauk #trevor herbert #vampire killer #the hunt #the spiral #the flesh #the desolation #the end #father edwin Burroughs

[themagnustournament]

Round Two Part Six - Match 42

Trevor Herbert is out on the hunt for vampires! And Doctor David will cure you of all your ailments :) Vampire Killer received 146 votes, while Wonderland received 165!

MAG 010 - Vampire Killer | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Trevor Herbert, regarding his life as a self-proclaimed vampire hunter.

MAG 177 - Wonderland | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

An examination of mental health care. Audio recorded by the Archivist, in situ.

#the magnus archives #the magnus tournament #tma #mag 010 #mag 10 #mag 010 vampire killer #mag 10 vampire killer #vampire killer #trevor herbert #the hunt #hunt #mag 177 #mag 177 wonderland #wonderland #the spiral #spiral #round two #round two part six

[nonbinarylocalcryptid]

MAG10 - Vampire Killer

*turns around in the most ugliest coolest yellowest office chair like a Bond villain, petting a baguette-shaped cushion* so, you came here from MAG9 without expecting the whiplash. Don't worry, you are not alone lmao

Trevor Herbert is like a homeless Chuck Norris, a shaggy Terminator, a Van Helsing lite (the Hugh Jackman one, not the original). He looks in your head like the dog in The Lady and The Tramp but in human version.

And the very first thing this mf says when he writes his statement is "I've been procrastinating this shit for 50 years, but hey, I finally came to the Magnus Institute". So better late than never and all that jazz.

Quoooooooting timeeeee:

"I hear someone even made me a page on the Internet and it got a few thousand likes. I don’t know exactly what that means but it sounds nice." - Trevor Herbert, July 10th 2010

Aww, doesn't he sound nice? :D

"Obviously that’s not why I’m here, though, is it? No, I’m here because I have also dedicated my life to finding and killing vampires." - Also f*cking Trevor

Sorry u wHAT

" (...) but I do not have proof to give you except for the vampire teeth that I will leave with this statement." - Trevor "I brought you a souvenir" Herbert

" I killed my first vampire in 1959." - Trevor Herbert, THE LEGEND THE MAN THE MYTH

You wish you sound as badass xD

"I was hit by a stale, coppery smell that I did not recognise as old blood at the time, since I was barely 16 and did not have then the experience I have now." - Trevor, barely 16 but already a poet

I find upsetting how many statement givers were so young they didn't know they were smelling blood.

"The furniture and wallpaper had clearly not been changed in many decades, and a thick layer of dust covered everything." - Trevor, 16, also an offended interior designer

LOL the landlord when he tells you " I just painted everything, it's all new"

"I remember wondering whether Sylvia McDonald walked exactly the same route through the house always, as I saw other clear lines of passage in the rooms we passed through." - Trevor "WTF" Herbert

" It was 1968, I remember because that was the year United won the European Cup, (...)" - Trevor "Yes, I'm British, why u asking?" Herbert

"I do not know if you’ve ever felt your blood being sucked out of you, but I would not recommend it." - By Trevor, 0/5, no stars

"Regardless, there is substantial evidence to support the version of events told by Mr. Herbert in all aspects except the vampirism." - Jon Sims, April 13th 2016

He really said "I believe everything except the vampire bullshit" XD

"(...) It may be that they take Mr. Herbert’s statement far more seriously than I do." - Also Jon

He sees that a lot of government and law people takes this statement seriously and goes "hm how weird, why tho, it's all bullshit"

Small review:

The vampires in the tma universe are so freaking weird, disturbing of course, personally I can't really tell if they are scary tho, but I'm certain they are a mystery.

Gotta say, RIP Nigel, he seemed nice :(

I must admit Trevor is quite an interesting figure, he's intelligent and resourceful, can do much with almost nothing and put together every piece of information he has in a way he can reach a satisfactory conclusion. And then he just sticks with it. There are these monsters, which I know how to kill, and so I do it. Simple. Efficient. Practical as hell.

This is also the second time going clubbing has ended horribly for someone in tma, and honestly? Wtf

This guy just die in the break room, like, lmao. He really said "no time like the present, may as well reach supersaiyan state in that couch over ther", and he fucking did it

And then Jon ends everything by showing a lot of evidences while acting the sceptic part and it's so goddamn funny. He should be a comedian.

General overview:

Vibe: this one is so fucking wild, nice homeless grandpa ends up being the modern Van Helsing and "dies" in a couch at paranormal research institute. Iconic

Horror: there are cryptids in it, that's horror genre coded

Audio: pretty ASMR in general

Humour: hilarious Terminator Grandpa, feat.Jon being Jon

Score: 10/10

#tma shitpost #tma #jon sims #jon sims being jon sims #trevor herbert #tma review #mag 10

[pigeonriot]

what i like about the vampire killer episodes (MAG 10 and MAG 56) is that when you listen to them for the first time you don't really know about the FearsTM, so you think it is about these vampire creatures, when it is actually about the Hunt and Trevor Herbert hunting

#esp the focus on hunting in mag 56 sgsggs #this is so obvious im sorry gshshs #im relistening to MAG rn #the magnus archives #mag #tma #my post #mag 10 #mag 56 #trevor herbert

[theunusualchameleon]

Trevor Herbert: Addiction, Clarity, and Drive

I’m participating in @a-mag-a-day, and decided to express some of my thoughts on the progression of Trevor Herbert’s characterization. The next thing I knew, I had an essay. 

Over the course of The Magnus Archives, one of the most interesting recurring secondary characters is Trevor Herbert, the homeless vampire hunter. Over the course of his appearances and statements, a rough timeline can be drawn comparing his overall stability over time. This essay will be ignoring his last appearances, most notably his attack on the institute at the end of season 4 and his brief moment in season 5, in favor of a deeper look at Trevor’s motivations and characterization over time. The resounding theme of his character is that steadfast dedication to a cause, whether that cause is morally right or not, can lead to personal improvement for those devoting themselves to it.

To make sense of what was an admittedly overgeneralized and cryptic claim, let’s look through Trevor’s timeline and compare his psychological state in each appearance. Trevor Herbert, like many other secondary characters from Magnus, features in multiple statements spread out over the course of several seasons. Other important minor characters, such as Jared Hopworth, Agnes Montague, and Adelard Dekker, are also introduced in this fashion. Trevor’s appearances, however, are mostly in some form of chronological order, and we have not one but three statements given by the man himself, which allow us, the listeners, a relatively easy look into his mind.

The first statement he appears in is Mag 10: Vampire Killer. Trevor describes his early years first encountering vampires, as well as his experiences being homeless. The first half covers fleeing from an abusive home with his brother Nigel, and Nigel’s subsequent death at the hands of a vampire. This first encounter is heavily interspersed with digressions about later learned facts on the nature of vampires, comparing his knowledge at the time of the first encounter with his knowledge now. This provides us with several important pieces of information. Firstly, Trevor is both smart enough and experienced enough to define general rules for vampire behavior and abilities. Secondly, he’s interested in sharing that information. He states or implies several times in this first statement that he intends for it to become reference material for all those looking to hunt vampires themselves; later evidence suggests that that was very much the case: his statement has been viewed many times by members of the police, and section 31’s vampire policy is clearly influenced by Trevor’s experience and advice.

The second half of the statement shows the beginning of Trevor’s decline. Between his first and second vampire encounter, he almost convinced himself that he was seeing things, became addicted to heroin, and remained homeless. It was only a chance encounter with another vampire that got him firmly on the path of a vampire hunter. 

Here, similarly to the journeys of several other avatars or statement givers, we see the motif of the second encounter. Some people had only one encounter with the supernatural, and generally managed to dismiss it, returning to their normal, comfortable lives. The second encounter marks a turning point, where the unfortunate victim can either turn around and leave again or embrace the danger and dig themselves deeper; Melanie King is a prime example of this, but so is Trevor. He chooses to follow the vampire and save its victim, thus beginning his personal journey to becoming an avatar of the Hunt. 

In the second installment of the same statement, featured in Mag 56: Children of the night, picks up after a large gap in which Trevor has both killed several more vampires, and deteriorated significantly. His heroin addiction, previously just mentioned in passing as what caused a vampire to stop biting him, has become much more debilitating. He is also beginning to show a physical dependence on the Hunt: thinking less clearly between hunts, and less dependent on the extensive vetting system he used in the past. It is only accidentally killing someone who was not, in fact, a vampire, that causes the shock to his system that brings Trevor the clarity he needs to understand what he is Becoming (and clearly by this point capital letters are necessary). This leads him into an even worse downwards spiral, where we can see more and more traces of the Hunt’s influence and interference. His addiction becomes worse and worse, and he says “It’s a wonder I never overdosed at any point”, which was likely due to the Hunt keeping him alive.

It is generally accepted that the full Becoming of an avatar requires a literal or symbolic death. The avatar is offered a choice: to die, or to continue living as someone else with full dependence and loyalty to their power of choice. It’s generally accepted that for Trevor this tipping point was when he failed to die of stomach cancer in the institute breakroom, but it’s more likely his symbolic death took place somewhere in these hazy years, right before he made the final decision to get up and keep hunting. He encounters an avatar of the Web, realizes that there’s more than just vampires hiding in the dark, makes his statement, and then leaves the institute, most likely not aware that his stomach cancer is no longer capable of killing him. 

The next turning point in Trevor’s life is when he meets Julia Montauk, his hunting companion and, later, adopted daughter. In the statement given jointly by Trevor and Julia, we can see that both when they met and when they gave this statement, Trevor had a clarity of thought and strength of body not seen earlier. His aging has slowed considerably, and he appears to no longer be using heroin. The Hunt has clearly had an influence, and Trevor is a particular favorite of it. In addition, he and Julia have more money, a car, greater knowledge of different types of monsters, and are in possession of The Catalog of the Trapped Dead, containing several ghosts, most notably Gerad Keay.

When Jon meets Trevor and Julia in America, Trevor is still rugged. He’s still old. He’s still violent. But embracing the Hunt and gaining a partner to Hunt with have given him an unbridled ability to think clearly and display the intelligence, instincts, and judgment we only saw hints of in earlier statements. 

There is both in-universe and real-life precedent for this. Acquiring a cause, giving yourself a purpose, can help an individual with personal struggles. We see many avatars who achieve self-actualization after embracing their god; Trevor is no exception. It’s not clear how much he consciously considers himself a servant of the hunt, but he clearly is, and that was the best option he could have taken for his personal growth and development.

#tma #the magnus archives #literary analysis #long post #tma essay #tma spoilers #trevor herbert #mag 10 #mag 56 #character analysis #tma relisten #a mag a day

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Other sketches on this page, but small nose doodle turned into trevor the tramp lol

#my art #original art #magnus archives #TMA fanart #the magnus archives #trevor the tramp #vampire hunder #trevor herbert #TMA #the magnus archives fanart #sketchbook #sketch #quick sketch #pencil sketch #mag 10 #vampire killer #i love this scruffy old man

[hawkmothdiemotte]

I listende to more and I still like it it’s just a complete surprise if I’m scared out of my life or don’t care. Maybe it has to do with how well I understood the episode or something.. ehh

#my stuff #my artwork #my art #fanart #tma #tma podcast #tma fanart #the magnus archives #magpod #mag 6 #squirm #mag 7 #the piper #mag 8 #burned out #mag 9 #a father's love #mag 10 #vampire killer #magnus archives

[somanyfuckedupiftruebooks]

Mag 10

Big mood Trev. I also avoid doing things until I am literally dying.

#a mag a day #reeah reacts to tma #mag 10

[guess-im-here]

Barges into magnus institute

Claims vampires are real and he's killed several

Refuses to corroborate further

Straight up dies

#the magnus archives #a mag a day #tma #trevor herbert #mag 10

[a-mag-a-day]

I had completely forgotten that Martin actually saw Trevor Herbert the day he gave his statement and also potentially saw his dead body. Poor Martin! He has such terrible luck with witnessing people's dead bodies doesn't he?

He just keeps running into bad situations, eldritch catnip! Maybe.

#tma #a mag a day #the magnus archives #tma spoilers #mag 10 #mod amai #episode asks

[artfulacrostic]

WHERES THAT ONE POST THATS LIKE "vampires when they try to drink my blood and it's loaded with two energy drinks..." etc etc with the gif of the guy spitting out the straw that's like "what the fuck"

bc trevor herbert literally said "bet". mans survived that one time bc he WAS DOING HEROIN. that's so funny FUCK

#r relistens to tma #tma liveblog #the magnus archives #tma #trevor herbert #mag 10 #mag 10 vampire killer

[theblueandwhitevase]

#the magnus archives #tma #tma polls #tma podcast #tma posting #the magnus archives polls #jurgen leitner #leitner books #mag 1 #mag 2 #mag 3 #mag 4 #mag 5 #mag 6 #mag 7 #mag 8 #mag 9 #mag 10 #joshua gillespie #trevor herbert #julia montauk #the desolation #the flesh #the stranger #the corruption #the hunt

[themagnustournament]

Redemption Round 2 - Match 42

We saw Children of the Night yesterday, and today we have Vampire Killer, here with 223 Round Two votes and 369 total votes! It's against Chosen, which is here with 125 votes from Round One!

MAG 010 - Vampire Killer | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Trevor Herbert, regarding his life as a self-proclaimed vampire hunter.

MAG 139 - Chosen | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Eugene Vanderstock, regarding the creation of Agnes Montague, her life, care and death.

#the magnus tournament #the magnus archives #tma #mag 010 #mag 10 #mag 010 vampire killer #mag 10 vampire killer #vampire killer #trevor herbert #the hunt #hunt #mag 139 #mag 139 chosen #chosen #eugene vanderstock #agnes montague #the desolation #desolation #redemption round two